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F. BURGENEH.

ADJUSTABLE FRAME FOR CLEANING CARPETS AND RUSS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 8. 1919.

1 3 1 5, 65 6 Patented Sept. 9; 1919.

telescoping horizontal FREDERICK BURGENEB, OF OLNEY, ILLINOIS.

ADJUSTABLE FRAME FOB. CLEANING CARPETS AID BUGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

Application filed April 8, 1919. Serial No. 288,498.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK Bunennm.

a citizen of the United States, residing at Olney, in the county of Richland and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Adjustable Frame for Cleaning Carpets and Rugs, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of my invention is to rovide a machine which is adjustable bot as to height and as to length and which provides a convenient frame over which carpets or rugs may be stretched while being cleaned.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention Figure 1 is a perspective of the entire machine; Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 22 of Fig. l; and Fig. 3

is a horizontal section on line 33 of Fig. 2.

Like numerals designates like parts in the several views.

Referring to Fig. 1 of the drawings, I provide base members 1 at the ends of which suitable hooks 2 are provided to fasten into the corners of the rug or carpet to be cleaned. Attached to members 1 are uprights 3 to which are attached suitable spring clamps 5 having tongues 7 projecting through a slot 4 in each of the uprights 3 and adapted to engage any of the slots 8 in the telescopic metal extensions 9. Extensions 9 are slidably mounted in suitable uides 10, preferably five for each uprig t. The upper ends of members 9 are rovided with curved slots 11 to receive and hold the top horizontal bar 12. Member 5 is provided with a suitable handle 6 for moving it out of engagement with extension 9 when it "is desired to raise or lower that member. Attached to upri hts 3 by means of suitable bolts 01. other 'astening means t I provide bars or strips 13 having longitudinal grooves 14, extendin through which is a suitable thumb-bolt or similar fastening member 16 by means of which the bars 13 may be secured in any particular desired adjusted position. At the endfor nearfthe end of each of the bars 13 I'providefa strap 15 slidably engaging over the othen-whereby the two bars are held ink 'e ejotelescopic relation as will be by reference to Fig. 1.

The carpet or rug to be cleaned'is fastened at the corners of the base members of the frame on the screw hooks 2, and stretched 0V,er the top horizontal bar 12. The frame may be readily adjusted to the desired height by grasping the-handles 6 of spring clamp 5 and pulling that member back so as to disengage its tongue 7 from the slot 8 into which it has projected, and raising the metal extension 9 and the bar 12, and then allowing tongue 7 of spring clamp 5 to re engage one of the slots 8 in member 9. The frame may be adjusted longitudinally by means of thumb bolt 16 and the telescopic bars 13 which are slidable relative to each other.

It is within the contemplation of my invention to rovide any suitable bracin and fastening evices and to make the di. erent parts of any suitable material, my preferred construction however being illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

What I claim is:

1. In an adjustable frame for cleaning carpets and rugs, the combination of base members having hooks secured at opposite ends of each of said members adapted to engage the edge of the fabric to be cleaned, uprights attached to said base members, vertically adjustable extensions mounted on the uprights, a horizontal bar carried by said extensions and mounted loosely on the upper end of each,and means adjustably connecting the uprights to permit of longitudinal ad ustment of the frame.

21' In an adjustable frame for cleaning carpets and rugs, spaced base frame members having carpet engaging elements at 0pposite ends of its base members, uprights mounted on said base frame members, a top horizontal bar loosely supported on the u per ends of the upright extensions, uprig t extensions adjustably mounted on the up rights, said extensions having spaced slots, a spring bolt of L-shape, mounted on the pted to releasably engage uprights and ada in a slot in the ad acent extension, and telesco ic means horizontally connecting the uprig ts in adjustable spaced relatlon, substantially as shown. I

FREDERICK BURGENER. 

